Switzerland Flashcards
The most cultivated white grape variety in Switzerland is (blank)
Chasselas.
What does Chasselas taste like?
An unexciting variety elsewhere, Chasselas can produce refined, mineral-driven wines in the moderate climate of Switzerland’s valleys.
What are the other main white grapes of Switzerland?
Müller-Thurgau, Chardonnay, and Sylvaner, known locally as Johannisberg, are also widespread.
What are the other main red grapes of Switzerland?
Among the red varieties, Pinot Noir, Gamay, and Merlot are commonly encountered.
What is the most important canton in Switzerland?
Valais
Valais’s vineyards are clustered around what river?
The Rhone River
Valais is also the (blank) winegrowing region in Switzerland.
driest
What are the main grapes grown in Valais?
Fendant (Chasselas) and Dôle, a blend of Pinot Noir and Gamay
What is Chasselas known in Vaud?
Dorin
Valais is to the ________ of Lake Geneva.
East
True or False: Switzerland is a member of the European Union and follows EU wine regulations.
False
What is the most planted white grape in Switzerland?
Chasselas
Dôle is a common blend in Switzerland that uses which two varieties as the majority of the blend?
Pinot Noir and Gamay
Switzerland’s climate can be best generalized as ________.
Cool
Swiss Blanc des Blancs is typically produced from which grape?
Chasselas
The five major wine producing Cantons are Geneva, Neuchâtel, Ticino, Valais, and (blank)
Vaud
What is the term for a Swiss autonomous region, similar to an autonomía in Spain or a province in Canada?
Canton
True or False: Wine laws are set by each individual canton, not by a national governing body.
True
In Vaud AOC wines, what percentage of grapes must come from the stated AOC?
90%
What is the easternmost grand cru of Valais?
Salquenen
True or False: Salvagnin is similar in style to Dôle.
True
The grape Amigne reaches its highest quality in which Grand Cru of Valais?
Vétroz
Ermitage is a synonym for what grape in the Valais?
Marsanne
Match the synonym for Chasselas to the region it is used in.
Dorin
Perlan
Fendant
Dorin - Bonvillars
Perlan - Mandement
Fendant - Vétroz
Heida is a synonym for which grape?
Savagnin
Which of the following cantons is NOT French speaking?
Ticino
Ticino’s sub-regions of Sopraceneri and Sottoceneri are loosely translated to being “north of” and “south of” what geographic feature?
Mt. Ceneri
Three Lakes is used as a synonym for which canton?
Neuchâtel
True or False: Swiss wine merchants were allowed to blend imported wine into their own until 2006.
True
In Vaud AOC wines, what percentage of grapes must come from the stated AOC?
90%
Côtes de l’Orbe, Chablais, and Bonvillars are regional AOCs in which canton?
Vaud
Lake Bodensee separates Switzerland from which other two major wine producing regions?
Württemberg and Baden
What is Vin des Glacier?
Rèze - is the grape (and one of the oldest indigenous grapes of Swiztlerland)
Style - maderized wine stored in high altitude soleras
In 2010, the Vaud appellation system was simplified, bracketing the former 26 village AOCs into six regional AOCs: What are they?
Côtes de l’Orbe, Bonvillars, Vully (by lake Neuchatel)
La Côte, Lavaux, Chablais (by Lake Geneva)
What are the crossings of Salvagnin?
Gamaret and Garanoir
(Blank), a small canton on the southwestern shore of Lake Geneva, contains the country’s densest plantings. Here Chasselas and Gamay dominate, though Chardonnay and Pinot Noir are gaining notoriety.
Geneva
What grapes dominate in Geneva?
Chasselas and Gamay dominate, though Chardonnay and Pinot Noir are gaining notoriety.
What are all the synonyms of Chasselas?
Dorin
Perlan
Fendant
